From 83986b6b104306ad7648d8a6ed138730335bf1bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Noel Welsh Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 19:42:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Adding content for first chapter of part 2 --- book/src/pages/part-two/explore/README.md | 13 +++++++++++-- book/src/pages/part-two/explore/directory.conf | 1 + book/src/pages/part-two/explore/loading.md | 4 ++++ 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 book/src/pages/part-two/explore/loading.md diff --git a/book/src/pages/part-two/explore/README.md b/book/src/pages/part-two/explore/README.md index 1ca65420..e1476d53 100644 --- a/book/src/pages/part-two/explore/README.md +++ b/book/src/pages/part-two/explore/README.md @@ -2,6 +2,15 @@ I'm assuming that you have little or no experience with statistics and data science, so terms like "statistical inference" are not meaningful to you. -It's a lot to understand concepts when we have concrete examples of them, +It's a lot easier to understand concepts when we have concrete examples of them, so our goal here is to work through a complete example of data exploration and analysis. -This will ground all the concepts which we will then work through in more detail in later chapters. +This will ground all the concepts which we will then go through in more detail in later chapters. + +We are going to analyse climate data. +We are all familiar with weather. +The core of climate data is measurements of the weather, so it's fairly easy to understand and relate to. +Climate data is also easy to obtain. +The data we are using is freely available, and you may wish to find data for your local area and perform a similar analysis on it. +Finally, climate change is topical and analyzing climate data lets us take our own look at the issue. + +Enough background, let's get on with it! diff --git a/book/src/pages/part-two/explore/directory.conf b/book/src/pages/part-two/explore/directory.conf index 343e383e..44deed4d 100644 --- a/book/src/pages/part-two/explore/directory.conf +++ b/book/src/pages/part-two/explore/directory.conf @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ laika.navigationOrder = [ README.md + loading.md ] diff --git a/book/src/pages/part-two/explore/loading.md b/book/src/pages/part-two/explore/loading.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..afbf6238 --- /dev/null +++ b/book/src/pages/part-two/explore/loading.md @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +# Loading Data + +Acquiring data, and transforming it into a workable state, can be one of the most time consuming parts of data analysis. In a later chapter we'll look at this process in more detail, but right now we're going to take a short-cut. If you're using the example project thing, as described in the introduction, the data is already available and ready to go. +